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Housing

noun

Structures collectively in which people are housed. Synonyms: living accommodations, lodging.

A protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component.

Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse. Synonyms: caparison, trapping.

House

verb

(past & past part. housed; pres. part. housing)

Contain or cover.

Provide housing for. Synonyms: domiciliate, put up.

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"Housing" Quotes from Famous Books

... Rooms of state were set apart for public audiences and for council meetings. In fact, the building was not only a King's dwelling-place, but the administrative centre of a whole empire, and within its walls there was room for the offices of the various departments and for the housing of their records. ...

— The Sea-Kings of Crete • James Baikie

... the rural civil service will also no doubt insist on having offices comparable with the vast hotels which their parent bodies occupy in London. But this will not account for nearly all the ancestral seats, and, in calling the attention of the Minister of Health and Housing to this little memorandum of mine, I would specially urge him to note how it will solve some of the most difficult ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 21, 1920 • Various

... article in the National Review concerning the inadequacy of our present solution of the housing problem; but ...

— The Wooden Horse • Hugh Walpole

... hill dwellers. A race must be hardy as the ragweed when it could not be exterminated even by its own patient effort. The tenantry of the flatlands might be excused for believing that a special Providence intended it to survive, despite poverty, malnutrition, bad housing and wasting disease ...

— Blue Ridge Country • Jean Thomas

... flickered with bright metal, varnish, snowy celluloid. The body of the machine looked capable of housing twice as many men as the Legion numbered. But everything, after all, was quite shrunk by the overpowering sweep of the wings. These dwarfed the fast-gathering group that stood peering up at them, like pygmies under ...

— The Flying Legion • George Allan England

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